Built For Confidence

Built for Confidence | Season 4, Episode 1: What Are You Actually Building? What if the business you’re building is also revealing the leader you’re becoming? In this season premiere, I’m asking a question that challenged a room of business owners at a recent flash talk in Denver: What are you actually building, and who is being built in the process? I share a story from my early days working on Lionel Trains. I noticed a problem in production and offered a possible fix, but the people with m...

How Will You Return? Rest was never meant to prepare you to return to the same unhealthy routines, mindsets, and pressures you left behind. Throughout July, Coach Paul has walked through four important stages: Refresh, Reframe, Replenish, and Return. In this final episode of the series, he challenges listeners to examine how they are returning to their homes, businesses, ministries, and everyday responsibilities. Are you returning to the same grind—or are you returning with greater clarity, s...

Have you ever found the secret to doing more when you truly step away from social media and all the noise? On this episode, Coach Paul shares his own life over the last few months — a 30-day social media reset in April that turned into unexpected growth (podcast downloads jumped from 149 to 412 downloads) proving that less really can be more. Key takeaways: Limit social media — get clear by stepping back from the scroll and the dopamine hitHave a digital Sabbath — step away from screens and r...

Ever tried to shift into a new direction in your business, but everything you attempted in your own strength just didn't work? This week we're back in the story of Elijah, watching God do something Elijah never expected — not rebuke him, but reframe him. Last week we saw God refresh Elijah. This week, God takes him from the cave to a conversation that changes everything. In this episode, Coach Paul unpacks: Elijah in the cave (1 Kings 19:9) — how your "office" can become the same kind of hidi...

Have you ever done everything right, watched God move in a real way, and then woke up the next morning exhausted, discouraged, and ready to walk away from it all? That's exactly the season we find Elijah in — and it's where we're starting this month. This July, we're walking through the life of Elijah using four R's: Refresh, Reframe, Replenish, and Return. After a heavy June spent working through Thoughts, Doubt, FOMO, and Mistakes, it's time to take what we uncovered and climb to the next l...